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In pictures: AFR Magazine’s 30th anniversary celebration

In a glittering party at one of Sydney’s finest diners, the Financial Review’s monthly glossy turned 30 in style. Photos by Oscar Colman.

Yesterday

A dish at Ottolenghi.

7 hotel restaurants that top chefs don’t want you to know about

Such often-maligned venues are enjoying a global renaissance. Check in to dine out at these exceptional culinary destinations where you can also lay your head.

This Month

Margaret River lands the world’s best vineyard awards

This year will be the first time The World’s Best 50 Vineyards announcement ceremony has been held outside Europe and the Americas.

How to dine like you’re in Paris (without the European summer)

Chris Lucas pays homage to the glory days with his over-the-top Melbourne bistro Maison Bâtard.

  Mindy Woods

The First Nations chef who’s bringing Australian cuisine to the world

Byron Bay’s Mindy Woods won a World’s 50 Best Restaurants award for her work preserving and sharing Indigenous food culture. Here are her recommendations.

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June

Maido is named World’s Best Restaurant for 2025.

The world’s 50 best restaurants for 2025 have been revealed

The year’s finest dining locations are no longer a secret. Here are the winners and why Australia missed out – but made the runners-up list.

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Birmingham new ABA chief; PwC profit slumps; 50 best restaurants

Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.

Chef Hugh Allen (left) and architect John Wardle on site as construction on Yiaga continues.

2 top Melbourne creatives join forces for a new restaurant

This new fine diner set in Fitzroy Gardens will be a homage to Melbourne.

Ross Anderson is the chief executive of Murray Cod Australia, which supplies Aquna-branded fish.

Can the Murray cod finally hook Australia an aquaculture giant?

It’s a fish that can be found on the menu of white tablecloth diners. But shrinking supply of premium species is a big opportunity for this ASX-listed company.

May

Restaurateur, Vince Lombino infront of his restaurant and bar in the under-construction Bennetts Lane development in Melbourne CBD.

Melbourne’s East End bets on a dining-led recovery

Hospitality operators are investing millions in a bet on Melbourne’s prized status as Australia’s top destination for big-spending tourists.

Neil Perry gives the lazy susan at Song Bird a spin

The chef and restaurateur rejects industry talk he’s sought a buyer for the restaurant but says: “If I had a magic wand, I’d go back to doing what I love.”

The top whisky you can buy without going on a waiting list

One of Australia’s oldest distilleries is releasing new $99 single malts and rare single-cask bottlings.

The Patuna Chasm Walk

Our wine writer meets his match in a NZ gorge

The highlight of a tasting tour through Martinborough has nothing to do with vineyards.

Eleven Barrck, Sydney: Designers Pascale Gomes-McNabb and Chris Grinham have brought the massive height of the room down to a human scale by making it clubby and comfortable.

The restaurant that’s turning back the clock (in the best way)

The Bentley team hit the big time in one of Sydney’s most palatial dining rooms.

The coolest place in Hobart to dine – literally

Institut Polaire, on the Tasmanian capital’s waterfront, is embracing the city’s Antarctic frontier.

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Bianca Marchi-Simon at Bianca restaurant.

From international student to restaurant entrepreneur in a decade

Biànca Marchi-Simon is part of a team that has reshaped Brisbane dining in just five years. Now they’re on the verge of another big expansion.

“People can be quite reserved when they don’t know each other.”

The (new) rules of business lunch etiquette

Our experts discuss the changing dynamics of business dining, right down to the place cards.

Dutton dines out in the mean streets of his favourite city

The defeated Liberal leader has bravely defied the threat of gang crime and abandoned restaurants in Melbourne’s CBD.

Hervey Bay half-shell scallops steamed with XO sauce.

This is the place to take someone when you want them to say ‘yes’

Brisbane’s top lunch destinations include a packed dining room that canonises grills and seafood, and the luxe, laid-back version of a Melbourne institution.

The city blending the best of Melbourne and Sydney

From kangaroo tartare to crab spaghettini and mighty robata grills, here’s where to book the best business lunches in Canberra, Darwin and Hobart.

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